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Pitts Special Airplane Model

Item#: KPTS*

MSRP Price: $205.15

Factory Direct Price: $153.86

Wing Span: 16.00
Length: 14.33

Manufacturer: Aviat

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Pitts Special Airplane Model

Factory Direct Model introduces this Made to Order Pitts Special Wooden Airplane Model. This Pitts Special Airplane Model was handcrafted with absolute precision using the finest Philippine Mahogany and was sealed to last for generations. Working with our library of blueprints, reference materials and their exact photograph’s, Factory Direct Model’s master artisans recreated this Pitts Special Airplane into a collectible scale model that you can display at your office, home, events and in any place you desire.

This Pitts Special Wooden Airplane Model comes with a detachable stand a Laminated Logo and an Inscription Plaque that adds beauty to this collectible scale model.

This Pitts Special Wooden Airplane Model is a perfect gift for Aviation Enthusiasts, Pilot, Aviator or the people who take took part in developing this Aircraft.

Your model will be made exactly as shown in the photographs. If you would like to change this model in any other way, please visit Our Custom Model Gallery section of our website to commission a personalized model to be built.

Pitts Special History:

The Pitts Special is a light aerobatic biplane designed by Curtiss Pitts. It has accumulated many competition wins since its first flight in 1944. The Pitts Special dominated world aerobatic competition in the 1960s and 1970s and, even today, remains a potent competition aircraft in the lower categories.

Curtiss Pitts began the design of a single-seat acrobatic biplane in 1943–1944.[3] The design has been refined continuously since the prototype's first flight in September 1944, however, the current Pitts Specials still remain quite close to the original in concept and in design.

Pitts also built several monoplane racing planes in the 1940s–1950s, the most famous of which was the low-winged "Pellet" of 1947 and the mid-winged "Lil' Monster" of 1951. Among other one-off projects, he also built a two-seat sport monoplane called the "Big Hickey".

Several of the aircraft that Curtiss Pitts built had a picture of a skunk on them and were called "Stinkers". After she bought it, aerobatic performer Betty Skelton called the second aircraft that Curtiss built, "Lil' Stinker". The prototype S-2, which was the first two-seat Pitts, was "Big Stinker", the prototype Model 11 (later called S1-11B) was "Super Stinker", and the prototype Model 12 was the "Macho Stinker".

In 1962 Curtiss Pitts set up Pitts Enterprises to sell plans of the S-1C to homebuilders.